Concepts
Noun
Names a person, place, animal, object, or idea.
The use of a uppercase letters in writing or printing
Capitalization
Addidas
9.Trademarks
Used to show the difference between two separate ideas or elements within a sentence.
Comma
Name all nouns and their types in the following sentence:
"A committee was appointed to study the situation."
committee= common, singular, concrete, collective
situation= common, singular, abstract
Punctuation
the act or practice of inserting standardized marks or signs in written matter to clarify the meaning and separate structural units
Consist of two or more words
Compound Nouns
The Great Depression
Periods and events
Used to introduce a quotation, an example, a series, or even an explanation
Colon
Fix the following capitalization errors in this sentence:
Mary said, "my brother lives to the northeast of france close to a cartier store."
Corrected sentence:
Mary said, "My brother lives to the Northeast of France close to a Cartier store."
Grammar
the study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in the sentence
Name a group of people, animals, or things
Collective Noun
Apollo
The names of God, specific deities, religious figures, and holy books
Used to separate two independent clauses while still demonstrating that a close relationship exists between them.
Semicolon
Add the missing punctuation marks in the following sentence:
The automobile dealer handled three makes of cars Volkswagens Porsches and Mercedes Benz.
The automobile dealer handled three makes of cars: Volkswagens, Porsches, and Mercedes Benz.
Parts of Speech
a traditional class of words (such as adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs) distinguished according to the kind of idea denoted and the function performed in a sentence
A complete sentence has two parts minimum yet must always express a complete thought.
Independent Clause
North, South, East, and West
Directions that are names
Used to show that certain letters have been omitted from a word
Apostrophe
Add the missing punctuation marks in the following sentence:
Yes Jim said Ill be home by ten
Corrected sentence:
"Yes,"Jim said, "I'll be home by ten."
Syntax
the way in which linguistic elements (such as words) are put together to form constituents (such as phrases or clauses)
Two or more independent clauses are connected improperly.
Run-On Sentence
House of Representatives
9.Members of national, political, racial, social, civic, and athletic groups
Used in compound words, to link words to prefixes, and also as a way to show word breaks.
Fix the following run-on sentence:
I love to write papers I would write one every day if I had the time.
Possible corrections:
I love to write papers; I would write one every day if I had the time.
I love to write papers, and I would write one every day if I had the time.
I love to write papers. I would write one every day if I had the time.